lookupn.

Brit.

/ˈlʊkʌp/, U.S.

/ˈlʊkˌəp/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: look v., up adv.¹

Etymology: < look v. + up adv.¹, after to look up at look v. Phrasal verbs 1.

†1. The fact or condition of having a good deal of respect for a person. Cf. to look up 1b at look v. Phrasal verbs 1. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1813 L. Hunt in Examiner 11 Jan. 19/1 He..takes away confidence from their look-up to him.

2. colloquial. Usually with hyphen or as two words. A visit, a social call. Only in to give (someone) a look up. Now regional.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > social event > visit > [noun]

visitation1581

visitinga1586

visit1626

home visit1750

visitment1754

to give (someone) a look up1852

call1862

ceilidh1875

klatsch1953

1852 Ainsworth's Mag. 21 153 We thought we would give you a look up.

1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms I. xiv. 191 We foraged up Aileen's mare, and made it up to ride over to George Storefield's, and gave him a look-up.

1935 Stage 31 Oct. 13/6 Give me a look-up one day.

1984 A. Massie One Night in Winter ii. 30 The old man said you were camping in the ruins... Thought I'd come and give you a look-up.

2006 C. Sankardayal Brown Curtains xvi. 186 Before he went to Barbados, he had gone to see me wife for the address, saying he go give me a look up.

3. The action or process of looking something up in a dictionary, book, database, etc.; an instance of this. Also (Computing): a function enabling this.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > research > [noun] > consultation of books, etc.

index-hunting1699

consultation1751

reference1774

lookup1948

1948 Math. Tables & Other Aids Computation 3 157 Operations such as division, square root, table look-up, etc., where the required time cannot be predicted.

1964 Discovery Oct. 55/1 A dictionary look-up which provides information about parts of speech.

1990 Amiga Computing Dec. 40/2 (advt.) Spelling checker features completely new 110,000+ word Collins dictionary with fast phonetic lookup.

2008 G. Karp Living Rich by spending Smart i. 22 Directory assistance is an expensive service for what you get, often costing $1 or more per look-up.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

ΚΠ

1913 Everyland Mar. 83/1 I've put Commodore Perry in my Lookup Book.

1948 Proc. Symp. Large-scale Digital Calculating Machinery 1947 150 The scanner could also be used as a function table, but it is not too satisfactory for that purpose because of the rather limited capacity and long look-up time.

1958 A. D. Booth in Aspects of Transl. 88 Enable a computing machine to perform look-up operations which a human translator would perform with a dictionary.

1967 N. S. M. Cox & M. W. Grose Organization Bibliogr. Rec. by Computer iv. 79 These citations are then found in the main file by a ‘look-up’ procedure.

1997 Calif. Lawyer July 64/2 A prime example is CDB Infotek, which is one of the largest and oldest look-up services in the country.

C2.

lookup table n. Computing an array or data structure enabling a result to be found faster than by calculating or searching for it, by matching one or more criteria; cf. table look-up adj. and n. at table n. Compounds 1a(c).

ΚΠ

1955 Notes Digital Computers & Data Processors v. 5.1.10 Variations on this switch configuration have been devised which not only translate from and to different number systems, but which can act as lookup tables for arithmetic manipulations.

1973 Computerworld 12 Sept. 21/3 The memory map is a hardware-implemented lookup table that identifies the physical locations of up to 512 pages.

2013 K. Morton et al. Pro Oracle SQL (ed. 2) ix. 247 In line 15, a rule for the column prod_list_price is specified and populated from the lookup table ref_prod.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	lookup
释义	lookupn. Brit. /ˈlʊkʌp/, U.S. /ˈlʊkˌəp/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: look v., up adv.¹ Etymology: < look v. + up adv.¹, after to look up at look v. Phrasal verbs 1. †1. The fact or condition of having a good deal of respect for a person. Cf. to look up 1b at look v. Phrasal verbs 1. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1813 L. Hunt in Examiner 11 Jan. 19/1 He..takes away confidence from their look-up to him. 2. colloquial. Usually with hyphen or as two words. A visit, a social call. Only in to give (someone) a look up. Now regional. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > visit > [noun] visitation1581 visitinga1586 visit1626 home visit1750 visitment1754 to give (someone) a look up1852 call1862 ceilidh1875 klatsch1953 1852 Ainsworth's Mag. 21 153 We thought we would give you a look up. 1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms I. xiv. 191 We foraged up Aileen's mare, and made it up to ride over to George Storefield's, and gave him a look-up. 1935 Stage 31 Oct. 13/6 Give me a look-up one day. 1984 A. Massie One Night in Winter ii. 30 The old man said you were camping in the ruins... Thought I'd come and give you a look-up. 2006 C. Sankardayal Brown Curtains xvi. 186 Before he went to Barbados, he had gone to see me wife for the address, saying he go give me a look up. 3. The action or process of looking something up in a dictionary, book, database, etc.; an instance of this. Also (Computing): a function enabling this. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > research > [noun] > consultation of books, etc. index-hunting1699 consultation1751 reference1774 lookup1948 1948 Math. Tables & Other Aids Computation 3 157 Operations such as division, square root, table look-up, etc., where the required time cannot be predicted. 1964 Discovery Oct. 55/1 A dictionary look-up which provides information about parts of speech. 1990 Amiga Computing Dec. 40/2 (advt.) Spelling checker features completely new 110,000+ word Collins dictionary with fast phonetic lookup. 2008 G. Karp Living Rich by spending Smart i. 22 Directory assistance is an expensive service for what you get, often costing $1 or more per look-up. Compounds C1. General attributive. ΚΠ 1913 Everyland Mar. 83/1 I've put Commodore Perry in my Lookup Book. 1948 Proc. Symp. Large-scale Digital Calculating Machinery 1947 150 The scanner could also be used as a function table, but it is not too satisfactory for that purpose because of the rather limited capacity and long look-up time. 1958 A. D. Booth in Aspects of Transl. 88 Enable a computing machine to perform look-up operations which a human translator would perform with a dictionary. 1967 N. S. M. Cox & M. W. Grose Organization Bibliogr. Rec. by Computer iv. 79 These citations are then found in the main file by a ‘look-up’ procedure. 1997 Calif. Lawyer July 64/2 A prime example is CDB Infotek, which is one of the largest and oldest look-up services in the country. C2. lookup table n. Computing an array or data structure enabling a result to be found faster than by calculating or searching for it, by matching one or more criteria; cf. table look-up adj. and n. at table n. Compounds 1a(c). ΚΠ 1955 Notes Digital Computers & Data Processors v. 5.1.10 Variations on this switch configuration have been devised which not only translate from and to different number systems, but which can act as lookup tables for arithmetic manipulations. 1973 Computerworld 12 Sept. 21/3 The memory map is a hardware-implemented lookup table that identifies the physical locations of up to 512 pages. 2013 K. Morton et al. Pro Oracle SQL (ed. 2) ix. 247 In line 15, a rule for the column prod_list_price is specified and populated from the lookup table ref_prod. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1813
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